29.01.2008 10:15:14 Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds Mike Hussey, Michael Clarke put in expressions of interest.IPL may not be keen to sign Aussie's players.
(live-PR.com) - The outcome of Australian Team too adamant to fight the case of Andrew Symonds racial slur by Bhajji will have its tolls in relation to India and Australia future game itinerary.
Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds Mike Hussey, Michael Clarke put in expressions of interest for the league, for their earning anything between USD 300,000 and USD 500,000. BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi has warned Australian may have more “casualties” when IPL franchise owners start recruiting players as the world champions’ reputation has taken a severe beating in the ugly episode in Sydney.
Modi said Australian cricketers’ popularity has gone down “dramatically” in India and that has made franchise owners a bit apprehensive about having them on board.
“We sincerely hope there is no impact on their involvement in the IPL. It will be for the team owners to decide. But there definitely will be some casualties from the feedback we are getting,” Modi told a leading Australian daily.
“Other nations who we play less with currently want to increase the number of matches we play with them,” Modi said.
“We will need to balance this in the Future Tours Program. We cannot increase the number of games India plays in total. So we will have to play less with some and more with others,” he added.
Modi, however, maintained that the BCCI would abide by ICC regulations and rubbished suggestions that the Indian Board was flexing its financial muscle to get things done.
“No one country can run the game. We have to all collectively run the game. Unlike in the past, the future for cricket will be best served if all have a voice,” he said.
“(The BCCI) definitely respects the ICC. It has a big role to play and will continue to be good for the game,” he added.
India's firm stand paid off today when racism charges against off-spinner Harbhajan Singh were dropped by a Judge and he was held guilty of a much lighter offence of using offensive language for which he was fined, escaping a three-Test ban that had been imposed on him earlier.
Appeals Commissioner, Justice Hansen from New Zealand, has heard the stump microphone recording.
Ricky Ponting left the hearing after deposing, and in what could a sign of a thaw in the relationship is that Sachin was escorted to the hearing by Cricket Australia chairman Creagh O' Connor.
The hearing began at Adelaide this morning at around 6 am IST.
The controversy appears to have settled once for all and better cricket game shall be played in the best of spirit to entertain the cricket lover all over all the world.Peace settlement appears to come to sight as Harbhajan has been been fine fifty percent.The tour of Team India to Oz to continue.Acrimonous debate followed due to bad umpiring at Sydney tests with umpires asked to pull out from the rest of the test series.A controversy cricket on Harbhajan calling Andrew Symond withMonkey labeled as Monkey came in the ICC norms as racial absue on which Harbhajan was put to trial today at Adelaide.
Relation between the two titanic cricket playing nations did reach low ebb as medias of two countries attacked each other with stories and counter stories of lack of discipline within two teams.
ICC-appointed Appeals Commissioner Justin John Hansen heard for nearly five hours Harbhajan's appeal against the three-Test ban imposed on him by Match Referee Mike Procter during the Sydney Test earlier this month when he was accused of allegedly calling Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds 'a monkey', and imposed on the off-spinner a fine of 50 percent of his match fee ending the controversy that had threatened to split the cricket world.
The New Zealand High Court Judge's task was made easier by behind-the-scene efforts by the Australian cricket board and the BCCI to find a compromise in the shape of downgrading the charge against Harbhajan from racial abuse (section 3.3 of ICC Code of Conduct) to that of using language which is offensive and of seriously insulting nature (section 2.8). This compromise was reportedly presented to Hansen at the hearing.
A delighted BCCI, which had raised the stakes by announcing yesterday that the Indian team would be called back home if the racial charge was not withdrawn, promptly welcomed the Commissioner's verdict and declared that the rest of the Australia tour would go ahead.
Match played at Adelaide and Anil Kumle gesture to withdraw Hoggs remarks for which team India also filed a complaint made the spirit of game improved and world watched the two teams played the best at Oval ground.
Harbhajan is not cleared of the racist slur, BCCI has kept the option of curtailing the tour open, even if it invites a fine.
The BCCI is not happy with the decision to use transcripts of the stump microphone audio during the appeal. Since this evidence was not used in the first hearing.
The BCCI insists that if the racial charge is upheld then the tour will be called off. However they say that if the charge is converted to one of abuse then that would be acceptable.
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